Helping School Superintendents, School Boards, and Attorneys Navigate School Safety, Security, Crisis Response, and Litigation:
We help superintendents, school boards, independent school heads, and attorneys simplify complex school security and emergency preparedness concerns while navigating the pressures from uncertainty around school safety issues. Let us help you:
- PreK-12 school security and emergency preparedness assessments
- Conference keynotes and school professional development training
- School safety litigation expert witness services
We save school administrators time and save their credibility as school safety leaders. We support attorneys with state and federal court school security expert witness services.
Our seasoned school safety experts are:
- PreK-12 school people with voices of reason who undertstand school climate, culture, and community-relations
- Skilled at cutting through the noise to identify what is really important and to simplify complex school safety issues
- Highly credentialed, credible, cutting-edge, and accomplished with decades of school safety experience
- Experienced school safety and security lltigation expert witnesses in state and federal court lawsuits
We provide independent (no product/tech vendor affiliation) school security and emergency preparedness assessments, conference and school training presentations, specialized school safety consultations, and school security litigation expert witness services.
School safety experts you can trust
Kenneth S. Trump, Ed.D., is the President of National School Safety and Security Services. As a career preK-12 school security professional, school safety is his mission. "Dr. Ken" has been making schools safer for more than four decades.
Ken speaks at conferences and consults with schools to assess security and crisis preparedness, and provides expert witness litigation services. He leads a team of experts in school safety, security, and emergency preparedness.
Ken has authored 3 books and more than 450 articles on school safety. Ken earned a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education with a research focus on the intersection of school administrator strategic crisis leadership with school safety communications in highly ambiguous and uncertain contexts. Learn more here
Our School Safety Services
SCHOOL SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS ASSESSMENT SERVICES
Do you know what is missing from your school security and emergency preparedness plans?
We do...
Superintendents, school boards, and heads of private schools hire us to help answer the pressing questions about school safety that your parents expect you to know!
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CONFERENCE KEYNOTES AND SCHOOL STAFF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
Dr. Ken's keynote, workshop, and school staff presentations are tailored to specific needs. Sample presentations include:
- School safety leadership in times of high ambiguity and uncertainty: Strategic crisis leadership and school safety communication lessons for school leaders
- Target hardening people, not just places: Boosting situational awareness, reducing human error, and strengthening cognitive decision making under stress
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Building and sustaining effective school safety teams: From swarm response to structured teams—what makes teams functional, focused, and ready under pressure
- Proactive school security and emergency preparedness planning: Focusing on the fundamental, nuts-and-bolts proven best practices for managing school safety
Leadership program audiences may include superintendents, assistant superintendents, principals, cabinet and leadership teams, school board members, heads of independent or parochial schools, charter school heads, school communications executives, school security directors and chiefs, police chiefs and sheriffs.
Audiences for frontline staff programs may include principals, assistant principals, deans, school and district crisis teams, psychologists, counselors, social workers, support staff (facilities, food services, health services, office, transportation, etc.), central office administrators, communications staff, school security directors and officers, School Resource Officers (SROs), first responders, and other community partners.
SCHOOL SAFETY VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLES
Virtual safety consultation and professional development services for safety/crisis and school leadership teams
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Safety Services
- School Security & Emergency Preparedness Risk / Vulnerability / Threat Assessments
- School Security Expert Witness
- School Security & Emergency Preparedness Professional Development Training
- School Safety Roundtables: Virtual Training and Teleconference Consultation
- School Threat Assessment Training - STAT
- School Tabletop Exercises
- School Support Staff Safety Training
- Post-Crisis School Safety Consulting
- Special Topic Safety Training
- School Emergency Planning Evaluations
- ...and more!
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